640 Free Crystals opened gave these results:


Is my experience atypically anomalously annoying or is it truly this hard to unlock Combiners for gameplay?   
I was hoping that with all those crystals, I would unlock at least one of them.
See below for the explanation:

That 4000 Volcanicus spark was the result of RNG Unlock trolling, it was all 2* Snarl dupes.  

That happens at every tier if HQ level exceeds defence rating, i.e: the HQ was upgraded without taking every single defence station to maximum allowable level prior to upgrading the HQ.
I am HQ15 and keep getting raided because I didn't follow that rule.
I've gone from 3million Alloy to 500,000 in just 4 days.

 

Lots of people are raiding with the onset of hq16. I know I’ve been upgrading about 3 walls a day at 5,900,000 alloy each. That’s 17.7 million alloy I have to take from somehwhere daily...

 

They keep using 5k squads on mine and i think its not even worth using 2k on it.

 

I rushed until 14. Now, I'm 15, all buildings maxed out, and 1/3 of my walls are maxed out. I still need to go from level 63to 65before Ican upgrade my hq to 16. Sucks! I do have a bunchof bots to level, 4 are 49, 7 are 48 5 47, 2 46, one 39, and 1 34. Ugh. Grind, grind, grind...

 

Looking forward to my next few 3star crystals and next Event's 4star.

I doubt I'll pull Pyra, but if I do this'll be my first combiner!

 

I think players go with the "safe reward" principle, that they don't want to even risk the chance of a defeat, so send overpowered squads to bases that can't defeat them so they get guaranteed resource acquisition.

But 5k to a 2k base?
That's truly incomprehensible, even I would aim a little higher, to get more resources.

 

SA is doing another of the Facebook giveaways later today, in case anyone missed the news.

 

I'll get up a photo of my base.

 

Does anyone know any resource hacks that won't moan at you for using them before because I am lacking resources like mad.

 

I have tried multiple times to get a screenshot of my base but because it's a Samsung which requires the swipe to take one it wont do it.

 

Just attack zone 13, and focus on the storages. I'm clearing four level 16 walls (5.9 million alloy EACH) a day that way.

 

I can't attack level 13 at the moment but I am working my way up, I started 2000 squads about 2 months ago

 

Try holding the power and front button at the same time. (If you have an s7 or before that is..)

 

As expected, alliance totalizer for a guaranteed 4* combiner bot. 280,000 total... shockingly low. However, zero 4* shards otherwise.

 

This week's event is alliance totals, with the grand prize being a 3 or 4 star combiner bot. Menasor or Victorion.

 

Plus a few chances for silver power cores. More likely to get battle boosts but I’m intrigued by this change in event layout...it seems like they’re lessening the grind across the board. Hopefully the next LBs are going to reflect this as well.

 

No the grand prize is a 4* combiner bot.

 

Hoping for a new 4* unlock this weekend, even if it doesn't finish a combiner. At this point I would never waste the ore to use the new ones anyway, they'd be too far behind the curve.

I've slowed down a lot over the past few months, to the point where I barely play during the week. I fight during the Alliance Wars and weekend events but I don't feel inclined to grind in the same way I used to.

 

Was really hoping for 4* shards.. just over 200 shy from my next crystal. Oh well, guess its better to space out the new 4* bots over two weekends.